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> PIÑATA PARTY
Justin Favela's "Grande
Bang" is one highlight
of Indelicate.
CALDWELL'S
CONCOCTION
PHOTOGRAPH BY CHRISTOPHER DEVARGAS
The CAC's Indelicate reflects its curator's taste for the
unconventional BY KRISTEN PETERSON
of the rainbow donkey, children's
In curating an exhibit for
Muppets and a Mexican superContemporary Art Center's Project
hero, reﬂecting Favela's cultural
Space, Las Vegas' JW Caldwell
background and wit.
ran through a mental list of artChris Bauder's latex-paint works
ists whose work he admired, then
"Can You See?" and "Shrive (Stage
whittled down the group based on
2)"—created by layering the nontwo factors: unusual materials and
pigment paint into sculptural form
unconventional methods of makand repeatedly dipping a balloon
ing art. "Everyone in this group
animal into the latex—result in body
has really experimented in their
organs, bordering on the erotic.
studio practice," Caldwell says.
Todd Duane Miller referenc"They're not satisﬁed with just
es Mapplethorpe with
making paintings."
"Men" and "Women,"
With painting not
two acrylic photo
necessarily the norm
INDELICATE
transfers on glass that
among serious artists in
Through
have the boxed-like
town, Caldwell, a paintSeptember 28;
nudes relating to one
er himself, had plenty
Wednesdayanother from within
of options to choose
Saturday, 2-7
their frames (colored
from, landing on a nice
p.m.; Sunday,
pink for the man, blue
sampling of media and
11 a.m.-3 p.m.
for the woman).
method standouts—as
Contemporary
And
B re n t
well as familiar names—
Arts Center,
Sommerhauser—known
in Indelicate.
382-3886.
for his complex and
It's a fun show, with
often large-scale sculpworks serving as a
tures made from wood ﬂooring,
brief and almost autobiographihouse parts, pencils and glass—
cal revue of each artist's unique
creates a ﬂuid-like falling house of
approach and subject matter.
cards by melting glass panes in a
Erin Stellmon continues her
kiln in "Slowly, at First" (fused and
narrative on Las Vegas transforslumped glass). His abstract drawmation unhinged with a threeing using a vacuum-powered wind
dimensional, mixed-media, vertimethod and chunks of copper and
cal pinball machine-style work
silverpoint is still evolving as the
aptly titled "Tilt," connecting the
copper and silver oxidizes.
past, present and future Strip
The only drawback to Indelicate
archetypes.
is that it offers only a taste of each
Justin Favela's "Grande Bang"
artist's work, rather than a heapcombines the mother lode of
ing portion.
piñatas, a rumble-style mashup
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